Bireysel

Bireysel is an adjective meaning "individual" or "personal," used primarily in Turkish. It describes things pertaining to a single person rather than a group. Common phrases include bireysel haklar (individual rights), bireysel veriler (personal data), and bireysel kararlar (personal decisions). The term is formed from the noun birey ("an individual") with the adjectival suffix -sel, and it is a standard technical term in Turkish law, education, and public administration.

The word has been borrowed into a number of other languages, including Indonesian and Malay, where it carries a similar sense of relating to the individual rather than to a collective. In these languages the usage is more typical in formal or technical texts—such as statistics, policy documents, or data protection discussions—than in everyday speech.

In its semantic field, bireysel contrasts with collective or institutional notions such as toplu or kolektif in Turkish. The concept is central to discussions of individual autonomy, privacy, and person-level data in modern information regimes, and it often appears in debates about legal rights and social policy. See also individual rights, data privacy, collective.